quantland

English

Etymology

From quant +‎ -land.

Proper noun

quantland

1. A notional place representing the domain of quants (quantitative analysts) and their work.

   Synonym: quantdom

   • 2009, Pablo Triana, Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets?, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 119:

     If anything, by departing from quantland we would at the very least prevent convoluted constructs from being used as intimidating alibis to justify stamping a "AAA" on a bundle of poisonous, mayhem-prone, NINJA loans.

   • 2020 February 6, Justina Lee, “Pioneers of Value Investing Are Trying to See If It's Dead”, in Bloomberg‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 November 2020:

     Their research helps to explain why managers in this corner of quantland are full of existential doubts.

   • 2023 October 2, Robin Wigglesworth, “Hallucinating machines”, in Financial Times‎^[2], London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 October 2023:

     One of the biggest problems in quantland is that you only have one dataset to work with — ie what has actually happened in markets. While in the actual legit sciences, you can run multiple experiments to generate a host of data.